graycrait

The RAR barrels need more than an allen wrench and kitchen table.  Apparently they are tough to remove for the average person.  However, they seem to be inherently accurate.

Just turn it in to something useful like this:

TGO'r Plinker4life furnished the stock and pillar bedded it (I refinished it such as it is), Dolomite Supafly tuned the bolt, I cut down a 150.00 barrel to 18.5 inches and recrowned it. Pliner4life redid the trigger and it is perfect for this. This thing is a moving target annihilator. That C-More is the perfect match for this at standard squirrel or rabbit distances. Now I need to get a decent sling for it and it is done.

I traded for this with another TGO'r last week. It already had the Boyd's stock and had the trigger spring out and I think some minor polishing. Anyway, measured with my Lyman digital trigger scale and it is a crisp safe 1lb 2oz. Shoots like a dream. Oh yeah, it is a Ruger American Rimfire Compact with a Boyd's stock. The stock hooks to the barrelled action in two places so isn't as prone to movement as the 10/22 might be. It uses 10/22 mags which is useful.I actually like shooting this better than the CZs, older Mossbergs or other bolt .22s I have had.

get an Armscor made Legacy imported Citadel in 9mm.  Or get a 9mm 1911 custom made by some private maker.  Anything else other than an Armscor made 9mm 1911 is gilding the lily.

POS in execution, brilliant in concept.

Remember they are all just a variation of a pipe and nail.   Semis Simplest = 10/22 which also has more aftermarket than any other Most fun out of the box  = S&W 15-22 Shoots the widest variety of ammo, including shorts, longs, long rifles, hyper sonic, subsonic, etc: = Remington 552 Out of production Mossbergs can be pretty darn accurate.  Stay away from Mossberg Plinkster or the AR style 715T Marlin 60s are iconic, almost twice as many produced over the 10/22 but the 10/22 is a bit more versatile. Marlin 795s are OK and offer the same thing as the 60 except uses mags.    Levers:  Stick with Marlin or Henry (should shoot S,L, LR).  Others: Taurus, Winchester, Ruger.    Pumps:  Shoots S, L, LR.  Remingtion 572 or Henry, both  in current production.  Good luck finding the Henry.  What I didn't like about the pumps is that the forend is a little wobbly due to the pump action, therefore they are a little "iffy" in accuracy vs some of the others.  Minute of squirrel head is likely good enough though.  I've had others like Savage (out of prod), Winchester and Taurus.   Bolt guns:     Lots of good ones out there: Savage always comes to mind when discussing current production value mass market guns that shoot well.  I'm goofing around with another Ruger American Compact though.  I think the best for the least would be the CZ 452 and 455.  Lots of good out of production models floating around too.  Best value in old bolt .22s IMO is Mossberg.  Maybe the best out of production value shooters are the old Remingtons.  Lots of foreign ones in this category.  Of course that includes Anschutz, always the Anschutz.     If you could only have two and money is an issue then 10/22 semi and a CZ bolt.      I've had a pile of .22 rifles, including, many of the above, many in multiple copies, but have pared my .22 rifles down to 3 10/22s, 1 Ruger American and a 1954 Savage .22/.410. 

http://bearingarms.com/army-wants-new-handgun-way-can-now/

This is a pretty entertaining thread!

 I have to believe "big" Army is training folks who are issued sidearms better than I was trained even though I was issued a "handgun"  from '82 through '98 although having enlisted in '73. If not, then discussions of caliber, action, etc., means very little.  A spear or a sling would likely be as effective.  The only guys I knew who had enough sidearm training ammo to make a difference fell under the "special" moniker.  Only after changing MOSs at FT Bragg did I ever have any sidearm training by someone who knew what they were doing.  You were better off training with a privately owned weapon with your own ammo.  So, other than Spec Ops I suspects graybeards in charge of the Army probably don't know or care about sidearm issues as long as they have a pretty one the armorer dotes on.  What I do remember about the 1911s that were issued during my time is that they were in operational condition but that is all.  They all sounded like castanets when handled, rattled in the holsters even.  They had to be heavily oiled or would turn orange in the holster.  It got so bad with my last one that I carried it in an oily rag tucked into the holster.     I vote for a striker fired handgun that all metal parts are ferretic nitrocarburized, with a "space age" polymer frame, requiring little lube, caliber 9 or greater. I would like to have it in a caliber that I can easily find anywhere in the world. As far as sidearm goes any of the usual suspects would likely work and fit the hand of most carriers.  The only advantage to issuing the 1911 is that the LOP and grip fit the vast majority of intended users, the XDM also comes to mind.  At least one striker fired pistol is even easier to dis/reassemble than the 1911.  Sig 220s are great, especially the SA models,  but the grips are big, as if the M9's grip isn't.    

I've got a 24 .22LR/.410 sold to my FIL in 1954 when he bought it for my MIL's wedding present.  It has had 2 .22LR rounds fired through it and has the hang tag. Crazy!  I would like a 22 Hornet also, but more like the CZ 527 variety.  Shot a friends 527 in 22 Hornet and was impressed with the rifle and his hot handloads.  

I was shooting a couple of .22 Short pistols, Beretta on the upper left, Astra on the right, Keltec 32 on the bottom for size comparison. It peaves me that there is no .22LR the same size or smaller than the Keltec. Beretta Bobcat is too thick.

LOL.  I cut up a lot of guns auctioned off by a fairly large police dept twice. I don't recall seeing a JA 22 either time:)  However, there were no shortages of RGs,  Hi Points and Lorcin 380s.  

Anyone see these for sale around Nashville/Clarksville?  Before you start in. I had a Jennings of the same model type.  I did a little work to it and got to run well then a friend needed it worse than I did.  I want another one is all and don't need any "guidance" concerning Saturday Night Specials.  

I've been reading everything I can about .22LR supply. Shooting .22LR is one of my major hobbies but I won't keep it up if availability and pricing doesn't improve. Is there any good reason that this outfit has not found that "equilibrium" price point? http://www.surplusammo.com/22lr/ I'm not sure if surplusammo's pricing is extreme in today's market because I haven't seen anyone else with as much "variety" available in one place. I'm not getting any younger and waiting for an approximation of pre-Sandy Hook prices and variety might not happen. I used to laugh at how restrictive the shooting sports were to the average German when I was stationed there for quite a few years, knowing that nearly anyone in the US could shoot due to pricing, availability and the less restrictive environment. Then there is the issue of "gun folk" sticking it to other gun folk by propagating "unfounded" fear driving up prices, further shrinking available supply.  Are there any verifiable facts that anyone knows about which shows that supply/demand/pricing will "normalize" towards pre-Sandy Hook levels?    I see no evidence that there has been any alleged increase in .22LR supply or that supply will increase in the foreseeable future.  What do the gun manufacturers think?  

I wonder if Surplus Ammo's pricing has allowed them to achieve supply and demand equilibrium?    . 

I'm so disgusted with the .22LR ammo "thing" I am about ready to sell my remaining .22 rifles and get one or two of these:  http://www.fxairguns.com/

that is not a bad price for CCI SV.  If I could buy it for that price, locally, I would.  

Call and ask:   http://www.jackfirstgun.com/order.php

I know that one of our local gunstores had to send 18 Remingtons back. Multiply that by all the other gun stores, big and small, in the nation just for recent models and then add all the ones sold the last 8 years - how many could that be?  I was reading on some forum that some 700 and M7 owners are just opting to put a Rifle Basix or Timney trigger in and be done with it.  If that is all there is to the fix, replacing the trigger, I would consider that if it were mine.

642s are not rare those grips might be though, here are some grip options:    http://www.altamontco.com/experimental/products/pistol/smith_and_wesson/#Smith_and_Wesson_jframe.php   http://www.handgungrips.com/JFrame_Round_Butt_=_Smith__Wesson/35/c/1825   http://www.craigspegel.com/   http://ahrendsgripsusa.com/revolver.htm   You might want to get this: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/262030/gun-video-trigger-job-complete-action-tuning-for-smith-and-wesson-revolvers-with-jerry-miculek-dvd

I've owned 3 LCRs, 2 SP101s, "airweights" both aluminum and titanium and a couple of S&W 60s.  I can do a fair action job on SP101s and S&Ws.  I also took a class one time where we fired around 400 rds of .38spl which I split between LCR and S&W.  I prefer the S&W, although the Rugers run fine. At the end of the day though I prefer semi-auto for a save your bacon gun. The difference between a LCR and lets say a S&W 442 isn't much.  I think the S&W has a shorter trigger stroke, but out of the box the LCR is smoother.  I think the S&W carries a bit "slicker" and seems smaller than than the LCR but that is mostly grip. If you are bound and determined to have a snubbie it would be a good idea to do some fast shooting in whichever revolver you plan on getting before you purchase.  

Go GLOCK!

even if you don't keep the JP in this rig permanently it is fun to monkey around with.  I had an older HBAR that I installed this in with an adjustable gas block, seemed to be a good set-up for that sort of rig.  I would think it would be a good way to go for a coyote gun.

You may as well get one of the iconic designs of the "20th Century" if you want a combat handgun:  S&W revolver (although its origins are 19th Century), 1911, Browning HiPower, CZ75 or Glock..  From there  in combat guns you can go to collecting cause the 5 preceding will get you through the night.    Then I would look at an HK P7 and Sigs, then maybe S&W and Springfield plastic guns.  A Colt "snake gun" would be fun too. But once you learn those first 5 inside and out the rest will become easy.